Intracellular scaling mechanisms

Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology

Volumn 7, Issue 12, 2015, Pages

  Reber, Simone ^a,b   Goehring, Nathan W ^c,d  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR CELL BIOLOGY AND GENETICS   (Germany)

^b HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c THE FRANCIS CRICK INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL SIZE; CENTROSOME; ENERGY METABOLISM; ORGANELLE SIZE; PHYSIOLOGY; SPINDLE APPARATUS; ULTRASTRUCTURE; XENOPUS;

ANIMALS; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL SIZE; CENTROSOME; ENERGY METABOLISM; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; ORGANELLE SIZE; SPINDLE APPARATUS; XENOPUS;

EID: 84940079910     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19430264     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/cshperspect.a019067     Document Type: Article

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